This is the nightstand at the real cabin.

People are always asking me about other books I like.  Mark Goodwin has written several really great ones that I think 299ers would like.

His latest three-book series is the Days of Noah.  It’s about a man in a collapsing, end-times America.  His previous series was the three-book Economic Collapse Chronicles, which was more a prepper series than an end-times one.  The Economic Collapse Chronicles are outstanding.  In fact, the audio version of the Economic Collapse Chronicles was narrated by Kevin Pierce, who is the 299 Days narrator.  Listening to Kevin do Mark’s books is how I picked him for mine.

Here is a link to Mark’s books.

I also note that Mark was kind enough to put me in the acknowledgments for the first book in the Days of Noah series.

I hope you enjoy these books.

“Glen”

Here’s a cool idea I came up with that maybe you can use.

I have my rifles in those Bore Stores silicone gun sock protectors, you know, like this:

Bore Store gun socks have a velcro enclosure at the end:

But the gun socks all look alike in the safe.  So I had Tactical Tailor make some specialized name tapes for me that go on the velcro closure at the end of the gun sock:

You’ll note a little velcro tab at the far right end of the name tape; this allows the velcro end of the Bore Store to close.  You end up with this:

I color code each type of rifle and use different colors of stitching to tell the guns apart at a glance:

If you’re interested in getting some of these, contact Tactical Tailor and ask for Caitlin.  (I don’t make any money off of this; it’s just a cool thing I’m sharing with 299ers.)

Great news! The 17th Irregular rifles outfitted by the Team are shipping now.  They’re put out by Working Man’s Armory.  (Here’s some background on Working Man’s Armory and the Team’s work with them.)

If you need an AR, check this out.

Toilet paper will be like gold when SHTF.  Ask survivors of the Argentine collapse of 2001, the Russian collapses of the 1990s, and Katrina survivors.

But with that tube in the middle of a roll, toilet paper takes up a lot of space.  Not anymore.

I put several rolls in a Ziplock Space Bag, the kind you put the vacuum nozzle on and it sucks all the air out.  (Costco currently has them in a package of assorted sizes for cheap.)

I suck the air out of the bag and tap down on the rolls with a mallet.  This collapses the tube in the middle and makes the toilet paper extremely flat.

Oh, and a bonus: your TP is airtight and dry.  It pops right back up when you let air in.  The perfect way to store TP – and save a ton of space in the process.

Hope this works for you.

Keep on prepping’.